Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-16
THE tx LUTON.
The Pretense Of Innocencs by the Anarch-
isIs While on the ScaffOld.
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1918 "ntlo on the ScanOlos
New York Times.
The decent solemnity with which the
victims OF the Chicago massacre were
svenged, compared with the savage fury
with which they were done to death COM
pleted the contrast, already SO conspicu-
Gus, between anarchy and law. 1t is not
often that men make cowardlY endlngs on
the scaff I'D. When they sre conscious
thst whole nation, and even the whole
civilized world, is watching their last
moments, most men are caps0le of brac-
lug themselves to brave the Inevitable.
1t Is not by any means s sign of mans
the gsllows his devotion to The
nit murder. Any pretense that takes
him out OF the lis Of vulgar and sordid
criminals will suffice for dying speech
= With all Of them alike the execu-
ton was the occasion Of full confession
of their guilt. The pretense that they
were innocent men, the victims o. mis-
taken or perjured testimony, and that
they were expistiDg 8 crime not their
own, IVES not put forward at the last by
single one of them. They made It EVIL
dCub Gu0G IL JuOlA lives A6O OCCu spalCu
they would have employed the time that
remained to them in making war upon the
human rsce. They murdered policemen
because these policemen were the uphol-
ders and symbols of puolic order. at
the last. by their speech or by their
silence, they all avowea themselves MUIR
derers, and owned the justice of their
doom None of the misguided persons
yhD hary noiny MI hat Sha5n
fences might be committed can hence
forth find any excuse for their own action
that will not dishonor themselves Who
ever maintains now that ''judictsl MUIR
der" was done in Chicago yesterday must
msintatn, not tnat these men were not
guilty OF killing the police Of Chicago,
nor that they have repented their crime,
but that the crime was noble and meri-
torious act.' An expression Of sympathy
for the fate OF such criminals is Itself
crime. 4
The martyrs of the law are thus at last
avenged. For the first time immigrants
from countries in which vast armies and
great bodies Of policemen are employed
10 suppress Cp'ni9n have been edmon
ished that American wide tolerance Of
all opinions and of all modes OF express
ing them ceases when mad Aopinions are
translated into lawless acts. The lessen
has not come before it was sorely
needed. Men who revolt against the
government Of the land that gave them
birth can at least plead that they were
made members of Its society without
their own consent. But no such
plea can be made by the man who has
Of his own will taken up his abode in
strange country. To orgaDlE4 "social
revolution" against all the institu lions IF
e society he has thus sought for himself
shows deliberate depravity that units
man for membership of any community,
past, present, or future. The absence
here of the visible means of enforcing Or
der that are TO be seen on every hand
abroad has encouraged these monsters to
plot massacres and rapine In American
cities almost without conce6lment.
NV that one Of their consplracies
has broken out in crime, other plot
tiers are notified that governments can
tXist and be strong and aveDge them
selves upon their enemies without need
ing armies or arsenals 10 overaWe their
own citizens. 1t is because the people of
the United States love the government
which they themselv. constitute, and be-
leve in it, that they do not heed the sp-
plances which imported anarchists have
been used to look upon as the only de-
lenses of order. The police of Chicago
were but handful against the MOB that
murdered them; but they stood for all
the millions of the American people, and
every American felt it to be
duty to do his part toward bring
ing their murderers to justice, as
every American would have felt IL as
personal disgrace if their murderers had
escaped justice. The vengeance taken
upon them is not that of single class or
Of q single community. 1t is that Of the
whole nation. The odds Of the mob
against the police seemed grest. but how
puny would sll the elements of crime and
disorder and anarchy in Chicsgo or in the
country seem IL they could be fairly set
in array against the millions Of honest
and peaceable and law-ablding men and
women who and whose like have made
this country what it is, and who
will keep it for order and for progress in
trust for mankind in spite OF all the hu-
man refuse that Europe has emptied or
may yet empty on our shores7 "Justice
travels with leaden foot. but she strikes
with an iron hand" It is 20 be hoped
that the distursers of our peace may be
so warned by the events OF yesterday that
ner hand need not fall Upon them yet more
needed assuredly it,will DE given.
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